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Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

10/20/2003 01:17:46 PM · #1

This photograph was in a wedding album cover for quite sometime and got stained over the years.

Can someone tell me how to remove the stain on the cuff of the wedding dress? With the lace I can not seem to get it right. I have used the Dodge Tool, Copy Tool and the Healing Brush. I can remove the stains at the bottom where there is no lace pattern.

Calvus

soup

Canon EOS-30D

10/20/2003 01:49:55 PM · #2

you could try the clone tool - by cloning some of the unstained lace and putting it over the stained area.

use as large a clone tool brush as you can.
i find that tool to be quite helpful

soup

PaulMdx

Canon EOS-1D

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

10/20/2003 01:52:31 PM · #3

Firstly, try selecting the offending areas. Then use Hue/Saturation to reduce the yellow saturation whilst beefing up the brightness. I'd imagine that will help, before you give clone/brush a go..

Mikael

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

10/20/2003 01:55:12 PM · #4

Try cloning a small part of a clean area that has about the same brightness tone as you intend to copy that part to.
repeat this to cover a part of a stain with the small "bricks", then flatten the image, and use the smudge tool to smear all sharp edges off the "bricks" and smudge out any visible stain colors left that hasnt been covered. finish up with selecting the area and use: Filter-pixelate-fragments, to hide some of the "smudgings"
might want to use the smudge tool again alittle here and there...

Did a small area with this tecnique, take a look on the results here:

Edit: Ops missed the part in you message that you "could remove the stains at the bottom where there is no lace pattern" sorry.. :)

Message edited by author 2003-10-20 18:02:00.

PaulMdx

Canon EOS-1D

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

10/20/2003 01:57:38 PM · #5

Here's my quick effort.

//www.calcaria.net/43106a.jpg

EDIT: How I did that:

Wand select the cuff with tolerance 30, anti-aliased, and contigious settings. Then use Hue/Saturation. Select Colorize and set hue to 219.

You could also try reducing the wand tolerance and do it in bands. This would help get the result spot on, and prevent the slight patching my quick example suffers..

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Message edited by author 2003-10-20 18:17:19.

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

10/20/2003 02:18:43 PM · #6

For the yellowish stain at the top - select it and adjust the colour balance to introduce more blue - should 'neutralise' the stain.

For the coffee rings lower in the frame, a soft edged healing brush will clear that up, sampled from the white regions close to the stain.

10/20/2003 02:22:45 PM · #7

I can't thank you guys enough!

I used the hue/saturation and finally figured it out like Paul did below. I had to get the hue to the blue range, and then adjust the saturation and lightness until they matched! Fantastic! can't tell there was a stain.

Thanks to everyone for your quick and great help!

We need more tutorials like this on DPC.

I found a website that has challenges that are all photo restoration and manipulation if anyone wants it. I did not find much help there for what I wanted but If anyone wants to enter the challenges?

//www.retouchpro.com/index.html

Thanks again :)

Calvus

Originally posted by PaulMdx:

Here's my quick effort.

EDIT: How I did that:

Wand select the cuff with tolerance 30, anti-aliased, and contigious settings. Then use Hue/Saturation. Select Colorize and it's practically done.

You could also try reducing the wand tolerance and do it in bands. This would help get the result spot on, and prevent the slight patching my quick example suffers..

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

10/20/2003 02:26:37 PM · #8

Something you may not know about that helped a lot for me in working out what needs to be done was the 'info' palette - you can use the little eyedropper cursor to inspect what the colours are, both in a 'good' white area as well as in the stain - then you can see what colour shift you have to do (more blue in this case) to remove the stain without having to use brushes or manipulate the pixels too much.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

10/20/2003 02:33:44 PM · #9

Thanks Gordon I will test all this out.

Calvus

Originally posted by Gordon:

soup

Canon EOS-30D

10/20/2003 03:00:55 PM · #10

thats a good trick
will give it a go next time..

soup

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

10/20/2003 07:19:00 PM · #11

The semi finished product.

Using the tips given to me I spent a few hours working on the damaged wedding photograph (and eating).

I repaired and cropped it to 8x10.

The photo was under an oval window in our wedding album for 29 years basically just showing the hands.

Original

Repaired

Thanks again;

Calvus

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

10/21/2003 05:25:49 AM · #12

Good job on that - repaired version looks great.

PaulMdx

Canon EOS-1D

10/21/2003 05:31:17 AM · #13

Ditto - nice work!

tfaust

Canon EOS 80D

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

10/21/2003 06:53:00 AM · #14

Wow Calvus - Nice work! :-)